Tag Archives: Chris Moles
Churchcares.com – the SBC’s plan to equip churches to respond to abuse (Part 1, Chris Moles))
Barbara Roberts ♦ 21st February 2019 ♦ 12 Comments
The SBC is preparing a video-based curriculum called “Becoming a Church that Cares Well for Abuse”. The teaching team they have chosen includes Chris Moles, Leslie Vernick, Darby Strickland and Diane Langberg. I have mixed feelings about this. The primary focus of churchcares.com appears to be sexual abuse, but domestic abuse is being covered as …
A contemporary PCA theologian who said that abuse is grounds for divorce – David Clyde Jones
Barbara Roberts ♦ 14th February 2019 ♦ 5 Comments
David Clyde Jones is remembered as the PCA’s chief ethicist of recent times (link). He trained generations of pastors at Covenant Theological Seminary, where he taught for 40 years. He commended my book Not Under Bondage. Jones suggested that the Westminster Confession’s statement about divorce be modified in one small but very significant way. The …
Biblical counseling, tribal loyalties and grooming. Windup of the Chris Moles series.
Barbara Roberts ♦ 1st September 2018 ♦ 10 Comments
Biblical counselors who are carrying the DV banner are starting to say some good stuff about domestic abuse and how it affects victims — things that weren’t being said when ACFJ began in 2012. But there are some changes we are still not seeing. 1. Their approach to abusers Either they are treating the abuser …
How many problems can you find in CBMW’s “Statement on Abuse”?
Barbara Roberts ♦ 30th August 2018 ♦ 8 Comments
Chris Moles and I both have concerns about the Statement On Abuse which the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood published in 2018. But I see more problems in CBMW’s statement than the ones Chris Moles noticed. This post is the penultimate in my series about Chris Moles. I know that some readers are wanting the series to …
15. Chris Moles endorses Peacemakers Ministry, which has no policy on domestic abuse.
Barbara Roberts ♦ 27th August 2018 ♦ 12 Comments
Another indicator that Chris Moles cannot rightly divide the word of truth is that he highly commended Peacemakers Ministry. When talking to Calvary Baptist Church about domestic abuse, he spent more than ten minutes praising and teaching from the Peacemakers ‘Slippery Slope’ diagram. (L 26:45–37:47)* Here is the diagram: The Slippery Slope diagram from Peacemakers …
14. Weird jokes, love of money, self-marketing — red flags that Chris Moles is a charlatan.
Barbara Roberts ♦ 24th August 2018 ♦ 41 Comments
Have you acted the buffoon at one time or another? I have. But how many domestic abuse professionals act the buffoon at batterer intervention conferences? … let alone be such drongos as to put those moments up on Twitter? Chris Moles often “cracks jokes” against himself. But there’s something deeply unsettling about his so-called jokes. And he …
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